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InterviewDateTime

5/28/2006 15:30:00

InterviewLocation

New Orleans, LA

StorytellerA-FullName

Smith, Norman R.

InterviewerA-FullName

Ordaz, Veronica

Relationship_OfInterviewerA

other

Facilitator Log

2:00 ideal day in childhood: epiphany to make calendars 2:40 making his first calendar. 10:40 'no such thing as a black calendar' 13:35 'no famous blacks in Louisiana' 14:15 I am a survivor because I escaped my old neighborhood 18:15 dogged persistence with subject-- having a breakthrough 20:35 'look like a little simple person asking about dead people' 29:15 pride for work -- academic challenges through to life success 32:00 flooding of his house; decades of research ruined in Hurricane Katrina 33:45 heartbroken about the destruction of his home 35:00 crying because of Hurricane Katrina -- loss of life's work 36:40 if he could save just one ruined audio tape: Mr. Russo 37:40 respecting one another and one's heritage 40:00 importance of recording histories 41:15 Proud of his work

Courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. www.storycorps.org. Any other uses of this material--for commercial or non-commercial distribution, editing, exhibition, publishing, publicly performing, publicly displaying, reproducing on a website, or quotation beyond "fair use"--requires the permission of StoryCorps. For clearance, please contact StoryCorps at http://storycorps.org/about/inquiries/.